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  • Towson Teacher Still Hospitalized After Boston Marathon Bombing

    TOWSON, Md. (WJZ) — Road to recovery. Two sisters, both Maryland natives were severely injured in the Boston bombings. Now one of them has been released from the ...

  • Chen set to begin rehab from oblique injury in Florida

    Email BALTIMORE -- Orioles left-hander Wei-Yin Chen (oblique strain) will head to Sarasota, Fla., on Tuesday to get an early start on his rehab, although he isn't expected to pick up the ball for at least another week. "I want to come back as soon as possible, but this injury I cannot push too hard," Chen said through interpreter Tim Lin. "I have to heal completely, so I ...

  • Hunter always monitoring his important changeup

    Email BALTIMORE -- Orioles right-hander Tommy Hunter isn't shy about admitting he checks the stadium's radar gun while on the mound. But it's not exactly the way you would imagine. "You will see my neck breaking trying to find out how hard I was throwing the changeup," said Hunter, whose fastball has been clocked in the triple digits. "That's kind of weird, ...

  • City school system passes $1.2B budget

    The Baltimore school board unanimously passed a $1.2 billion budget Monday that had essentially remained intact since it was presented.The last budget of outgoing schools ...

  • Casino site contamination prompts new lawsuit

    Building and skywalkThis rendering shows the main building and skywalk of the planned Horseshoe Casino Baltimore, which would be located in the Westport ...


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Lawless [Blu-Ray]

John Hillcoats Lawless is set in the boozy-sleazy backwoods of Virginia at the height of Prohibition, when the hillsides were lit at night by burning stills and the local police didnt just look the other way, but actively participated in bootlegging. The pulp fictional screenplay by Nick ... ...

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  • Md. looks to make city regular host of NCAA lacrosse championships

    NCAA lacrosse championships. "My vision is we're going after both men's and women's [championships], and we're going to create an epicenter" for the sport, said Terry Hasseltine, director of the Maryland Office of Sports Marketing, on Monday. Baltimore already is a frequent home to the NCAA lacrosse final four and championship games. It hosted the men's and ...

  • Counties city face potential loss of piggyback revenue

    Bill to require sales tax for online purchases advances in Senate Andrea Mansfield, legislative director of the Maryland Association of Counties, said the organization hopes Gansler takes the case to the high court. "There will be a fiscal impact on our Maryland counties," Mansfield said. "It's a big hit." The case disproportionately ...

  • More poverty in Baltimores suburbs than in Baltimore research shows

    More people live in poverty in Baltimore's suburbs than in the city itself, part of a nationwide shift that is challenging the largely urban assistance network built up over decades.Suburban poverty in the Baltimore area grew 58 percent between 2000 and 2011, compared with 4 percent in the city, according to research released Monday by ...

  • Jason La Canfora on the NFL Owners Meetings

    Jason La Canfora of CBS Sports joined the "Glenn Younes Show" on Monday night to give an update on the owners meetings in Boston. First up was RG3 and fans purchasing wedding gifts for him. "If people want to do that for him god speed, if people want to buy him a set of salt and pepper shakers to make him happy, god speed brother. Nobody is hurt they are all happy, nobody has an ...

  • Large group of teenagers fighting in downtown Baltimore

    A large group of teenagers were involved in a fight near the Inner Harbor in Baltimore on Monday afternoon, with several of the teens taken into custody, police said.One police officer was injured responding to the brawl when she fell after chasing one of the teenagers, scraping her legs and knees on the ground, Baltimore Police spokesman Detective Vernon Davis said.Witnesses said dozens of ...

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